How to change the colors?

Hello there,

This is actually irritatingly difficult – or at least I haven’t found an elegant solution. (The WordPress function add_editor_style() can be used to change the editor appearance in the admin back end, but this function does not work in the front-end site.)

In bbPress, the editor panel appears in its own iframe, and loads its own styling. At the time of writing (bbPress 2.5.13), it’s created in bbpress/includes/common/template.php with a call to the WordPress function wp_editor(). You can supply editor styling as an extra parameter to this method – but bbPress doesn’t provide a “pluggable” way to do this, so to make changes there you’d need to hack the actual bbPress code.

If you do find a better solution than this, please let us know!